Grauden forest

The Graudenwald was a jungle between Pregel and Memel.

The forest consisted of pin oaks, alders, birches and dense, thorny bushes. It was crossed by the rivers Ossat, Schillup, Budup and Argentina. To 1354, the oldest trade route was created by the Grauden between Insterburg Kraupischken and Ragnit. 1377 crossed Marshal Gottfried von Linden with Duke Albrecht of Austria and his army of 30,000 men to Grauden on their way back from Ragnit to Königsberg. 1384 resulted in a first path, the 43rd Ordensweg, by the Grauden, by the later places of the parish as Skattegirren, Wittgirren, Schaulwethen, Budopönen, Oschnaggern, Lieparten, Argeningken / Graudszen and Taurothenen and on the Tilse after Ragnit. Peter Suchenwirt who saw him with my own eyes, described him as hardly penetrable wilderness.

On its edge is situated the city Graudenz.

Wigand of Marburg still knows a second Grauden in the country Geysow ( Gojzew; east of the mouth of the Dubissa in the Memel ).